PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Ibm Officevision, Classical Conditioning, Hermann Ebbinghaus
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2011 ibm sent its supercomputer (watson) to compete on jeopardy against highly successful human players: ppl believed machines lack human elements: i. e. personality, wisdom, sense of humor, soul. Anthropomorphism | [psychology] act of treating objects or animals like people. Psychology is a vast discipline; collection of discipline, composed of many overlapping fields of study: Involves study of behaviour that can include perceptions, thoughts, emotions: employ the scientific method in their work. Psychology | scientific study of behaviour, thought and experience. Scientific model | way of learning about the world through collecting observations, proposing explanations for the observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Scientific thinking & procedures revolve around the concepts of hypothesis and theory. Hypothesis | testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measures: a testable hypothesis is one that can be confirmed or rejected (you do not prove a hypothesis, scientific hypothesis must be testable.
